With all the gorgeous ladies and handsome men on television and on the big screen, we wanted to find out what made them stars, and we realized that they all started in the same place – on soap operas.

After 72 years The Guiding Light, the longest running daytime soap opera, is going off the air on Friday. Calista Flockhart‘s first acting role was on The Guiding Light, and we think that the ladies who started on soaps are some of the hottest in Hollywood now.

Soap starts aren’t just for women, and some of Hollywood’s hottest leading men also kicked off their careers on soaps. Alec Baldwin, Josh Duhamel, and John Stamos all were part of daytime dramas, long before their own lives were the focus of drama!

From the ultra sexy Lindsay Lohan, who started out on Another World to former General Hospital bombshell Demi Moore RadarOnline.com has all the beautiful women and handsome men you want to see.